Rate Distortion Optimized Inter-View Frame Level Bit Allocation Method for MV-HEVC

Hui YUAN, Sam KWONG, Xu WANG, Wei GAO, Yun ZHANG

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Abstract

In multi-view video coding, since inter-view prediction has been adopted as an important coding tool which could improve coding efficiency greatly, inter-view dependency is inevitable, i.e., the distortion of the reference view (RV) picture could be propagated to the non-reference view (NRV) pictures. Therefore, in order to achieve higher coding efficiency, the inter-view dependency must be taken into account for inter-view bit allocation. In this paper, the inter-view dependency is analyzed in detail, and a rate-distortion (RD) model for NRVs is derived by taking the distortion of RV into account. Based on the derived RD model, the inter-view bit allocation is represented as a mathematical problem with an analytic form, and is solved by a convex optimization (Lagrangian Multiplier) method. Experimental results demonstrate that the RD performance and the inter-view quality consistency of the proposed method is better than existing methods, while the complexity of the proposed method is comparable with the existing methods.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2134-2146
JournalIEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Volume17
Issue number12
Early online date10 Sept 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2015
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Prof. Adrian Munteanu.

Funding

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61201211, Grant 61571274, Grant 61272289, and Grant 61501299, in part by the Young Scholars Program of Shandong University under Grant 2015WLJH39, in part by the City University of Hong Kong Applied Research Grant 9667094, in part by the Ph.D. Programs Foundation, Ministry of Education of China under Grant 20120131120032, in part by the Excellent Youth Scientist Award Foundation of Shandong Province under Grant BS2012DX021, in part by the Key Laboratory of Wireless Sensor Network and Communication, Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant 2013002, and in part by the City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute.

Keywords

  • Bit allocation
  • inter-view dependency
  • MV-HEVC
  • rate distortion optimization

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